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To be near unto God - pagina 291
we are passive. Life then only begins. But when God has privileged us to reach the yeara of maturity, and the end has come, the servants and handmaidens of the Lord should not bebirthdragged out bj^ death against their will, but of themselves they should face it with a will. And by ...
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answer in reply: "Behold, here I am, Lord," and then bravely enter the valley of the shadow of death and go through it, knowing that the Lord awaits our coming, and that by his hand he leads us through this darkness to the light. Let it be said at once that such ideal dying The woes and sorrows o ...
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waning strength, in order that in dying he might glorify his God. He had no thought of caring for himself, of being concerned about his own spiritual estate, or about breathing forth his latest breath. And when he blesses his sons, it is no family afifair, but an holy prophesying that through his ...
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mightyspiritshookitselfawake.In dying heglorified God. In doing this he left a shining example for every Christian to imitate. There is a meeting with God in such dying,which enriches Divine knowledge, both in the one who is about to depart and in ...
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And yet, we do it, when imitating the of the world we say of such dead that theypractice.way"peaceably passed away." Not calmly and peacefully, but fighting and conquering in the Savior, should be the dying bed in the Christian family. He who has not the heart for this, but i ...
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All the knowledge of God that has been acquired before concentrates itself in such deathbed worship, and in that moment it is wonderfully illumined, enriched and deepened. Now the dying saint knows God more clearly than he ever did before. He almost sees God face to face.. This worship also bears ...
To be near unto God - pagina 297
64"GIVE YOURSELF TO FASTING AND PRAYER." It is a contradiction in terms, that while members of the churches of the Reformation profess to live according to the precepts of Holy Writ, they do not fast. It is certainly a Scriptural rule of life, not only in the Old, but also in the New Testa ...
To be near unto God - pagina 298
ing is almost altogether abandoned. It is still our habit, as it was in the days of Hosea, to say: "Our God, we Israel, know thee" (8:2). But when Scripture shows that the Knowledge of God is greatly advanced by prayer, and prayer by fasting, is there not something lacking, when we, who say that ...
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fasting of the right sort, and declares that it has reward of grace with God. are only safe therefore, when on one hand we oppose dead formalism in fasting, and on the other hand bring into practice the true fasting, which has been appointed of God. And as we look back upon the past, and look aro ...
To be near unto God - pagina 300
temporary abstinence from food. It aims to put an end to the dominion of the body over the soul, and to restore the soul's dominion over the body. You know yourself that everything that feeds and pleases the body has a tendency to repress the clearness and elasticity of the life of the soul. ...
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